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A mid-19th-century painting by Charles Becher Young showing the battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Sikh Empire. The EIC did not gain a decisive...

A map illustrating the troop positions of the British East India Company (pink) and the Sikh empire (yellow for the first battle line and red for the second line after a regrouping mid-battle) at the battle of Aliwal of 28 January 1846 during...

A mid-19th-century illustration by Henry Martens showing the battle of Gujrat on 21 February 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Sikh Empire. The EIC won the battle and the war...

A c. 1847 painting showing the battle of Ferozeshah on 21-22 December 1845 during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). The British East India Company won only a marginal victory against the Sikh empire as there were high casualties on both...

An 1863 portrait of Maharani Jind Kaur who, from 1843, ruled as regent for her infant son Duleep Singh (l. 1838-1893), the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire which was dissolved after the Anglo-Sikh Wars (1846-9) with the Brtish East India...

A painting by J. Harris of the Battle of Sobraon, 10 February 1846. The battle saw the British East India Company defeat the Sikh Empire and so win the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). (National Army Museum, London)

A mid-19th century illustration showing the Sikh commander Raja Lal Singh (d. 1866) who fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6) against the British East India Company.

A map showing the troop formations at the Battle of Sobraon on 10 February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-6). Sobraon was the last of four major victories for the British East India Company (EIC) against the Sikh empire and so...

A map showing the troop dispositions at the Battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849 during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) between the British East India Company and the Sikh Empire. The battle was indecisive with heavy casualties on...

A mid-19th-century illustration showing the siege of Multan by the British East India Company during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) against the Sikh Empire.